PhotoWings Presentation | Suzie Katz | Foundry 2021
Watch on Vimeocreated, utilized, seen, and saved.
Suzie Katz is a photographer, speaker, educator, producer, and is giving back to
the world that has given her so much by creating and running an educational
non-profit organization called PhotoWings. Our mission is to highlight and help
facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photogra-
phy to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved.Through her own
photography experiences, she has a developed a deep understanding of the un-
der-utilized skills, knowledge, and wisdom honed by the world’s best storytellers
and related professionals. These can also be an important inspiration to others’
work and lives both inside and outside the photo silo across generations, cultures,
and disciplines. Such ideas can be utilized for self-discovery, better communica-
tion, critical thinking, visual literacy, resilience, storytelling and understanding con-
text, among others, and are also valued as social emotional learning and executive
function skills.
To document and more richly utilize that legacy we’ve created, along with our in-
novative partners, 100’s of hours of interviews, presentations, and other educa-
tional content incorporating these ideas for replication, adaptation, or inspiration.
Suzie also thinks a lot about better utilizing the often under-appreciated value and
potential of photos. To do that, however, involves saving images from being lost
to the world. Photos that may not seem important today can be deeply important
legacy later for loved ones, for multiple uses in education, and valued as history. So
many photos are tossed, lost to the elements or technology in what is sometimes
referred to as the “digital dark ages” that they’re no longer available, so an import-
ant aspect of our work is to proactively address this timely issue. As photo curator
Malcolm Daniel states, “Each time we lose a photograph that has power, we’ve lost
the opportunity to be changed by it”.
